I’m going to toss out Microsoft 3D builder, strictly to dip your toe in the water. It’s bare bones and basically MS Paint but when I was getting started I used it for very simple stuff. I still use it if I’m making dead simple modifications/combinations of existing .STL files.
Microsoft actually had some cool ideas in the early/mid 2010s. Still had all the proprietary bullshit but there was at least nifty stuff going on.
This is a great conversation because I’m one of those people who’s terrible at arithmetic, but quite good at math. As in: I can look at a function, visualize it in 3D space, see what different max, mins and surfaces are dominated by what terms etc, but don’t ask me to tally a meal check. I’d be useless at applying any math without a calculator.
Similarly, there’s a lot of engineers out there that use CAD extensively that would probably not be engineers if they had to do drafting by hand.
The oatmeal did a comic that distilled this for me where they talked about why they didn’t like AI “art”. They made the point that in making a drawing, there are a million little choices made reconciling what’s in your head with what you can do on the page. Either from the medium, what you’re good at drawing, whatever, it’s those choices that give the work “soul”. Same thing for writing. Those choices are where learning, development, and style happen, and what generative AI takes away.
That helped crystalize for me the difference between a tool and autocomplete on steroids.
Edit: to add: you’re statement “I claim to understand but don’t” hits it on the head and is similar to why you have to be careful if plagiarism in citing academic review papers. If you write YOUR paper in a way that agrees with the review but discuss the paper the review was referencing, and, even accidentally, skip over that the conclusion you’re putting forward is from the review, not the paper you’re both citing, that’s plagiarism. Notion being you misrepresented their thoughts as your own. That is basically ALL generative AI.
this makes me feel much better. I’m debating spooling it up on wifi after disconnecting it and piecing it back together.
That makes sense but also it seems like you just like adding extra round characters to the end of things.
thank you! I had looked at the documentation but was unable to find that. I think to be safe I’m going to follow what @[email protected] said as well. There’s no reason not to label them.
Which means, sorry future people stumbling on this, I will not be providing definitive evidence one way or the other on this.
This. I’m smack in the middle of prepping for this. A friend came out and visited and helped me start boxing. I have another who’s coming out to drive the truck. I could but he’s got his CDL and is willing to do it.
Getting movers that drive the truck out of town is expensive, but in town, or just some big dudes to load/unload is much less. Everyone’s financial situation is different but I was shocked at how different the price of those two categories was.
Something like 98% of what you see in the night sky is already out of our reach. If you left right now, at the speed of light, you would never, ever, reach them.
Another consequence of that is that some day the light from those stars will also be unable to reach us. They’ll still be there, same as the day before, but not one shred of information from them will be attainable.
If you could go to this future, you would have no way of convincing people, except say, the ancient texts. To some extent it would not even matter because again, existing or not, there is no way for them to interact.
98% of what’s in the night sky would just have to be taken on faith.
Im not advocating religion here I just always thought there was some poetry in that.
It was actually very low effort! There are a number of image to STL converters. I used this one: https://imagetostl.com/
Like you can see it’ll flub some stuff. I would have been better off filling in the areas of text and doing the emboss manually myself, but I just wanted to hit print. 2% infill, I think it was like 2.5g of filament and 20mins.
It’s fun to screw around with that process. I’m tweaking one of my friends cabin to use to make a mold. My goal is cast concrete or something similar so I can pound some thin copper around it, and be left with a cool wall decoration.
You don’t know me. Everything I’ve ever printed was critical.
Literally why I got mine. If you’re losing motivation use 3d builder. Use blenders clay tug and pull function to make something hideous.
I got certified in June. I don’t carry a mask because the risk of disease transfer is small, and I don’t want one more thing to worry about if it’s something I have to do.
There’s a small, practical first aide kit in most of my packs (2x alch pad, bandaides, benedryl, gauze pad, superglue), and a full one in my car. The one in my car is still mostly practical (all of the above plus more gauze, sling, calomine, butterfly bandage, antibiotic ointment, BP cuff, stethoscope, SpO2). Most of it is meant to stop bleeding I just don’t want on my seats.
I’m only going to be a pedant because that’s sort of the point of these conversations, that’s not a bad interpretation and I appreciate you posting it.
Edit re-reading your answer we might be saying the same thing. Leaving incase this version lights someone’s bulb
BUT, it’s not so much that it’s “distributed” as that, so long as the boat floats, there will be a mass of water displaced exactly equal to the mass of the boat. In this case it’s displaced off the bridge (off either end). There is zero force being applied up or downstream (except during the initial transition). That’s the fun thing about incomprehensible fluids, every infinitely small point at the bottom of a water colum ONLY has the force of the column above it acting on it. A pressure gage will read the same for a square mm or square m.
Spot on with the bowl though. The displaced water can’t leave the system in that case so the masses add.
Heres the action lab video BTW! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SUq_tM3yGTM&pp=ygUKQWN0aW9uIGxhYg%3D%3D
Here’s a fun fact action lab pointed out: setting aside wind, etc, the load the bridge has to be designed for is only the water that fills it.
That bridge will have the same force on it from a tanker or a kyaker.
So I have a FlashForge AD5X with the MMU. It worked amazing out of the box, including flawlessly doing some TPU. They actually mentioned the MMU was designed with TPU in mind. That being said: I have been struggling with basic PLA, even after swapping to nozzle that has run only PLA (even though I only ran <10g of TPU through it). I am still new to a lot of this, and don’t feel experienced enough to fault the hardware. What I can say though is it does seem folks are specifically improving the ability of MMUs to handle flexibles. A big reason I got it was to be able to do ABS parts with TPU gaskets. Ask me in a few months.
yeah, like I always liked the Pi as essentially an arduino and easier way to spit stuff out to a screen, and native wifi. As they evolved some of the micro-pc stuff was cool for hosting a few services, but why do they keep pushing into the mini-pc sphere.
I guess I get that this is an expansion of the Pi-5, and that does kind of make sense for those who want it, but it seems like they’re going to lose the plot in one of these generations soon.
You can be pretty technical/capable and still write that article (especially if you have technical expertise outside programming). I have never felt so seen.
I worked my way up from arduino -> RasPi -> Debian -> Self hosting quite a few things. I’m very much a hobbyist/novice, but I’m used to learning. It is so hard to read some documentation and understand what something even does sometimes. This goes double for incredibly useful tools for monitoring/implementing other tools. Like I swear I read the kubernetes descriptions 30x before I realized what in the hell it actually does, and now I’m probably about to break my entire home network with it because I think it’s cool as hell.
Also, to your comment specifically: I can get sensors on PCBs I personally made collecting data, throwing it through my own MQTT broker, hosting a dashboard etc, all at a remote site across state lines. I have no idea wtf markdown is. I use yaml for HA stuff with the ESPs, but I don’t know why markdown is a thing and it’s not just python.
And I am 1000% sure there is a very good reason for 98% of this. But yes I found this article hilarious. In my personal circle of hell all nouns end in “-ly”.
Same here. Printing something like say, a cow, with frequent swaps would be wasteful, but I’ll do parts with 1-2 color swaps. It’s mostly nice as you said though to have multiples “locked and loaded” to do a 1 filament print.
I cannot emphasize enough how unwilling I’d be to interact with someone that has these.
Maybe? It was/is on an old win10 I keep around (and came with it).
There’s a million better options, but I was glad it was there. Good way to get some kid fooling around early the way paint did. You used to be able to scan things with your surface and import them into builder (this was a good while back).